* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

* 1945 – Neal Boortz, American radio personality

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1945 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist ( d. 2001 )

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1905 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist

* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician

* 1945 – Robin Jackman, English cricketer

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945 ) is a Nicaraguan politician.

In 1945, Camp Carpenter became the official Scout camp for Daniel Webster Council.

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit ( born 4 April 1945 ) is a German politician, active also in France.

Daniel Robert Odier ( born in 1945 in Geneva ), known by his pseudonym Delacorta, is a Swiss author, screenwriter and poet.

She attended Daniel Webster High School in Tulsa, from which she graduated in 1945.

* Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Daniel, 1945 – 1949

In 1945, thanks to his contact with Daniel Gélin, he made his film debut at the age of 31 with a bit part in Jean Stelli's La Tentation de Barbizon (" The Temptation of Barbizon ").

Daniel Frederick Grant ( born February 21, 1945 in Fredericton, New Brunswick ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey right winger, who played in the National Hockey League for parts of fourteen seasons, most notably for the Minnesota North Stars.

Daniel Carter ( born 1945 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania ) is an American free jazz saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s.

* 1945: Daniel Patterson Blades

Daniel Davis ( born November 26, 1945 ) is an American stage, screen, and television actor best known for portraying Niles the butler on the popular sitcom The Nanny and his guest appearances as Professor Moriarty on Star Trek: The Next Generation, affecting an upper class English accent for both roles.

Born in 1945, Daniel Dreiberg, a Batman-like figure, relied more upon technical wizardry and tools than toughness, which set him apart from his fellow costumed adventurers.

* Daniel Francis Desmond-December 16, 1932-September 11, 1945 ( His Death )

Daniel Joseph Marion ( born 1945 ) was the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from March 26, 1999 until March 31, 2000.

Daniel " Donie " Cassidy ( born 15 September 1945 ) is an Irish businessman and a former Fianna Fáil politician.

The Army shared Daniel with the United States Marine Corps in 1945, the latter sending him to Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan to set up a Marine Personnel School.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Daniel Albright ( born October 29, 1945 ) is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard and the editor of Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources.

Daniel Olbrychski (; born 27 February 1945 ) is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing the Russian defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt.

In 1945, the Inspector General, Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan, investigated a series of allegations against Brett regarding the misuse of Army funds and property.

* Daniel Lee ( pastor ) ( born 1945 ), South Korean pastor of Global Mission Church

In 1945 Delorme married actor Daniel Gélin with whom she had a son, Xavier ( 1946 – 1999 ).

* Daniel Carter ( musician ) ( born 1945 ), American musician active in New York City

He tried to return to the legislature as a pro-coalition independent in the 1945 election, but lost to Liberal-Progressive Daniel Hamilton by 208 votes.